True to a coordinated script, Russia has now confirmed with Bush it will back the essential deal with Germany. (see CNN clip below)
On course for the "international community" to "forgive" 90 billion dollars altogether.
What they cannot bear to forgive is the last 30 billion. Because that would challenge the whole basis of the internationalist finance capitalist system.
The new Iraq must be born onto the world stage as a debtor nation. Unlike of course, the USA!
Chris Burford
CNN>> It was the last holdout, waiting to give its OK while President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, both in Chile for the APEC Summit, discussed the issue. Joerg Mueller, spokesman for German Finance Minister Hans Eichel, later announced Russia's agreement. Mueller did not give details of Russia's agreement.
Eichel and U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow hammered out the deal to forgive up to 80 percent of Iraq's $120 billion debt in three stages over several years.
